Posted on 03/28/2018 8:44:39 AM PDT by Liberty7732
I haven’t been a member in years. I plan to join again through my club - this year thanks to these fools and the media demanding an end to the 2nd amendment.
Welcome.
I have disagreed with the NRA for years about the efficacy of endorsing Democrats.
I hope they have learned their lesson.
PS - I also recommend that you join and support an effective state-level gun rights organization wherever you live (assuming there is one).
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The NRA is possibly the purest civil rights organization in existence.
I too do not share the fascination with guns that many of my friends have but, I came from a communist country where guns had been taken away from the people so, I became a lifetime member when my kids were born.
Welcome!
The NRA is a true “grass roots,” democratic organization, unlike the phony leftist “community organized” groups whose money comes from oligarchs and billionaires.
in 2016, the NRA ranked exactly 470th in terms of registered lobbying organizations giving money to candidates. As the article says, and unlike the Leftist propaganda, the sums they actually use for lobbying are small.
willing to use emotionally traumatized teens to further their autocratic government agenda...
... the NRA ...absorbs the blows the Progressive Left and their propagandists in the traditional media would otherwise be aiming at individual, traditional Americans.
You're right Liberty - we need to support the NRA if we're gun people or not... they protect all of us - we need to return the favor. Great post - totally on target. ----
I rejoined the NRA this month after two decades of absence. I was ticked off that they did not fight the “assault weapons ban” after the Patrick Purdy shooting. I was ticked off at old timers who said “you don’t need an AR-15 to hunt”. The 2nd amendment is not about hunting or target shooting or even personal protection. It is about keeping government intrusion at bay. That is the entire thesis of the bill of rights.
It really, really, really p!$$ed me off when the NRA endorsed Harry Reid. It has been extraordinarily hard for me to forgive them for that.
Joined 2 days ago after years of letting my membership lapse.
I was much like you.
—could you update me on when Reid was endorsed by the NRA?
...willing to use emotionally traumatized teens to further their autocratic government agenda to weaken this indispensable American right..
Fronted by an ambitious liar, at a par with Hellary, who misrepresented his being at the school from the time the shooting began till it ended. God knows what he was doing at home when he was truant from school. And apparently he still is a truant.
I am not sure about the year, but I am pretty sure it was the last election he ran for the Senate. I’ll try to search it and see what I can find. But that sticks out in my mind big time because I was appalled. It did not matter to me that he was the Senate Majority leader
According to the New American, “...In the mid-1990s the relationship was much cozier: Reid voted for NRA priorities, and the NRA endorsed him, blessing him with funds and high ratings. In 1993, and then again in 2004, Reid voted against the ban on “assault rifles” even though most Senate Democrats supported it. In 2005, he voted for a measure that insulated gun manufacturers and dealers against lawsuits from victims of gun violence seeking deep pockets. For this the NRA rated him a “B” legislator and supported him financially in his reelection campaign.
In turn the senator bent over backward to obtain the land and the funding for the Clark County Shooting Park located not far from downtown Las Vegas...
I don’t have time to look up posting a link, but this article is almost exclusively about the NRA endorsing Reid. I think it was the 2010 election:
https://godfatherpolitics.com/the-nra-got-harry-reid-re-elected/
Nobody likes being told what they need or don’t need. It’s human nature.
But, generally speaking, gun owners tend to be independently minded, while those calling for confiscation are comfortable in the collective.
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